Re: DBD Oracle and Windows Question

instead of me regurgitating what the documentation already tells ... try perldoc DBD::Oracle ...
i.e. see the documentation for DBD Oracle or DBI.

It has lot of examples of how to connect.. troubleshooting etc.

Anurag

"Mark Krieger" <msk_at_unipress.com> wrote in message news:eb6a1741.0302121245.1c6d05c7_at_posting.google.com...
> Hello. We have been using Perl 5.6 and DBD 1.12 for Oracle 8i on
> Windows, it works well to a local Oracle database. When we set the dbd
> connect parameter to another Oracle server (SID?) in the network, we
> always can a listener failure on the local Windows 2000 box.
>
> We are very experienced with perl and dbd, but not that experienced
> with Oracle, although we can connect from a Linux box with only an
> Oracle client via dbd to any other Oracle server on our network
> without extra fuss, simply by giving the right SID name in the connect
> call "connect(dbi:Oracle:Oracleservername,"","");"
>
> Any ideas of what we are doing wrong?
>
> thanks,
>
> Mark
Received on Wed Feb 12 2003 - 17:04:24 CST